Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been found in a massive cloud that dimmed the light of a star for nearly nine months. This discovery, made with the Gemini South telescope in Chile, one half of ...

This collection showcases a solar system in motion, from Saturn’s moons playing tricks on perspective and a comet’s dramatic ...

Venus spins slowly, yet its upper atmosphere races around the planet at roughly 220 miles per hour, a supercharged jet stream that has puzzled scientists for decades. Now a new line of research argues ...

By Sean Mowbray Climate change is disturbing wind patterns across the globe in dramatic ways. And when combined with land-use change and desertification, these changes are spawning immense sand and ...